Ranking Member on Parliaments Roads and Transport Committee, HON.Kwame Agboza has called on the Ministry of Road and Highways to prioritize the payment to contractors.
He lamented the huge backlog of unpaid road contractors and called on government to revisit its decision to cap the road fund.
To him, the government’s lackluster attitudes towards the payment of contractors adversely impact road construction in the country.
According to the Member of Parliament for Adaklu on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress, delays in paying contractors is to be blamed for the construction of substandard road and high road construction cost in the country.
He also urged the Ministry to take steps to properly renumerate engineers in the Ministry, whose salaries, according to the M.P, were not anything to write home about.
He made the above observations in parliament when the Minister of Roads and Highways, HON. Amoako-Atta, moved Parliament to approve budget estimates for the 2022 fiscal year for the Ministry of Roads and Highways.
Some 400 million Ghana cedis have been earmarked to the Ministry of Roads and Highways to undertake its operations in the 2022 fiscal year.
According to the Minister, the approval of the said amount will advance the President’s laudable vision on Roads and Highways.